This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I always have to be writing.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I like to work and am a focused person.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

I often work by avoidance.